Fireside Chat & Q+A with Luca Netz, CEO of Pudgy Penguins  Date: Wed 2 August  Time: 9am PT/4pm UTC Luca Netz (Luca Schnetzler) is the CEO of Pudgy Penguins, an 8,888 NFT collection of adorable cartoon penguins. In April 2022, Netz acquired the Pudgy brand and his leadership has turned it into a success story beyond Web3.  In May 2023, the company introduced a physical line of plushies and figurines called Pudgy Toys. The launch of these physical collectibles topped the charts on Amazon, with over $500,000 in sales volume over two days. In this genius call, Luca will discuss his vision for Pudgy Penguins and the rationale behind this acquisition. He will also cover licensing and merchandinsing products that have roots in web3, leveraging community and building trust, insights from running a web3 business, monetising social influence and much more.    Connect with Luca at: https://twitter.com/LucaNetz

Members of the CPG Pre-Accelerator Pitch a panel of judges

Date: Wed 8 February Time: 9am PT/5pm UTC With over 1,000,000 POAPs minted to date, our next genius call is one for the books! We will hear from Patricio Worthalter, the founder of POAP. Patricio is a 36-year-old, high drop-out based out of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Patricio joined the ethereum ecosystem full time in 2015 and has been running POAP since 2018. We will hear from Patricio on a variety of topics including: building a ubiquitous web3 business, lessons and insights from growing POAP, tangible advice for builders in web3 and much more. If you have any questions, queue them up - Patricio is looking forward to answering them! Patricio is in CPG Genesis. Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/worthalter

Date: Wed 1 February Time: 9am PT/5pm UTC In this genius call, we will hear from Dan on a variety of topics including: building a sufficiently decentralized social network, the value of doing things that don’t scale, using user feedback to evolve the product, lessons and insights from his time at Coinbase, tangible advice for builders in web3 and much more. Dan Romero is a co-founder of Farcaster, a sufficiently decentralized social network. Prior to Farcaster, Dan was an early employee and exec at Coinbase, where he led international expansion and the consumer business. He's also an active angel investor. Farcaster handle: @dwr Twitter handle: https://twitter.com/dwr